When compared to the women of the previous generations, today’s women are a lot different. Just in the past decade, a lot of changes have been cropping up in the way that women are seen in society. Male chauvinistic, regressive and even ageist attitudes are gradually receding.

Dr Kanmani Kannan, who hails from a small village Pachaperumalpatti in Tiruchirappalli district of Tamil Nadu, became Kerala’s first female stem cell donor. Little did she imagine the experience when she signed up to become a donor in 2013 during a medical camp in Kerala.